Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19296, Isaac Giddings, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Giddings, Isaac
S. 19296
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27402 Massachusetts
Isaac Giddings.
of Anderson in the State of Mass who was a private in the Com d command by Captain Gerrish of the Regt. command by Col. Johnson in the Mass line for
16 Months private M ch
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 53 - Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of May 1832 and sent to William Ward Esq. Newbury Port
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1832. $159.95 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sep " . 26.66 $186.65
{ Revolutionary Elam. Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk Book C Vol. 2 Page 30
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Isaac Giddings Isaac Giddings -
30717 Isaac Giddings of Anderson Essex Co Mass
Adm 16 Months private Capt Garrison Col. John
William Woart Esq Newburyport Mass

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this second day of August  October , A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Isaac Giddings Jerr , a resident of Andover , in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 80 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
He first enlisted at Ipswich in the company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Wade , in the regiment first commanded by Colonel Gerrish afterwards by Colonel Little and marched to Winter Hill , in April of 1775, and enlisted then to serve for eight months - and did duty at said Winter Hill in said company, the full term for which he enlisted, and was discharged there the last of December following; was with said company, engaged in the battle which was fought with the enemy on Breed's , or Bunker Hill (so called).
Afterwards enlisted at Ipswich in the company commanded by Captain Lewis ; in the regiment commanded by Colonel Johnson , and served in said company as a private at Saratoga four months, from 1 st July 1777 to the last day of October following and was then discharged at Saratoga was in the battle fought at Bennington in the line under General Stark .
Afterwards enlisted at Ipswich in the company commanded by Captain Gould , in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wade and did duty in said company as a private at West Point in the year 1780, the full term of three months, and was then discharged at
as as then in 1781 believe the record of his birth is on the Town books
That he now resides at Andover , and has resided there for the last Forty years, previous to which he resided in Ipswich in said County where he was born, and at Linesborough , in the State of New Hampshire , where he resided nearly Thirty years - enlisted voluntarily - did not serve as a substitute - refers to James Leek , Deacon Newman & Justin Edwards who would testify to his revolution services (ad to his veracity if called upon). He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except the present, or annuity, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid. Isaac Giddings
D. A. White Judge of Probate
We Justin Edwards a clergyman residing in Andover aforesaid and M. Newman a magistrate residing in Andover aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Giddings who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be eighty years of age and upwards, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution (and was certain in that opinion)
Subscribed and sworn to before us. Justin Edwards M. Newman Mahor A. Clark Justice of the Peace

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the said Court further certifies that the Revd Pastor Edmond who has signed the foregoing Certificate is a clergyman residing in said Andover and that the said Morton Harmon Ely who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at said Andover, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Robert Clarke  Porter of the Court
D. White Judge of Probate
I Nathaniel Lord Sun, Register of the Court of Probate for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Isaac Giddings for a pension. Also that William Wright is a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Essex, and that his signature to each of the affidavits annexed is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I do also hereunto set my hand (and seal of Office this Second day of October A D 1832.
Nath. Lord Jr.

I Benjamin Gould of Newburyport in the county of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath do testify and declare, that I commanded a company in the service of the United States, in the war of the revolution in the year 1780 - That Isaac Giddings of Andover, was a private in said company, under my command, and served therein at West Point - Ticonderoga, ending the last of November of that year. Newburyport July 30th 1832. Benjamin Gould
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. In sum of Newburyport July 30th 1832. Then personally came Benjamin Gould above-named, and made oath, in due form of law, to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed in my presence. And I do hereby certify that the said Benjamin Gould is personally known to me and believed by me to be a credible witness.
John D. Sleeper Justice of the Peace

O. W. & N. Division.
P. S.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
M.R.C.
Washington, D. C., May 7, 1895.
Madam:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Isaac Giddings --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
2.19296
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 1775 8 mos. Pvt. Nathaniel Wade Gerrish & Little Mass.   July 1777 4 mos. Pvt. Lous Johnson Mass.   1780 4 mos. Pvt. Gould Wade Mass.  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill & Bennington.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Ipswich, Mass.
Date of application for pension, October 2, 1832.
Residence at date of application, Andover, Mass.
Age at date of application, Eighty years.
Remarks:
Very respectfully,
Mrs. Hannah M c Giddings, Box 632, Andover, Mass.
Commissioner.

E, 2,
19296 INVALID.
May 7/93 H. L. to Mrs. Hannah Giddings, Andover, Mass. Box 63 M.E.G.
File No. 18286
Isaac Giddings
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 153
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, May 8 th 1834.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Isaac Giddings, as a Private is borne on a Muster Roll of Capt. Nath l Wade's Company, where he is allowed from April 19 th to 10 th of May 1775. twenty one days. m 00 21  Isaac Giddings' name is borne on a Muster Roll of Capt. Nath l Wade's Company, in Col. Moses Little's Regt. where he is allowed from June 10 th to August 1 st 1775. for services and travel One Month and twenty nine days. — — 1-29 2.20
End L.
Isaac Giddings claims for further services under Capt. Nath l Wade. in Col. Little's Regt. in 1775; but the roll after the 1 st of August in 1775. is not found in this Office.
Isaac Giddings claims for services under Capt Lous in 1777 and under Capt. Gould in 1780; but the rolls he describes are not found in this Office. Edward D. Fays Secy

L. S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Newburyport May 10 th 1834
J L Edwards Esquire Commissioner of pensions
Sir
The application which I ask permission to forward you herein, for Isaac Giddings, was mislaid - I pray you to excuse my having troubled you when the facts was with me - I supposed that it had been forwarded to your department in October 1832.
with great respect
Yr M c Oh n ten t
W. H. (circled)

Andover Mass April 17. 1895
Bureau of Pensions
Revolutionary War Dept. Gentlemen,
Will you kindly give me the record of application for pension of Revolutionary soldiers as follows -
1. Jeremiah Goldenuth Capt. John Abbott's Co Andover Mass 2. Isaac Giddings - probably at Chebaco Mass. or that vicinity - and oblige
Yours very respectfully Hannah E. Giddings Box 632 Andover. Mass.